297 Quotes About Colonialism

Europeans would like to escape from their history, a "great" history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of millions, are taking it up for the first time, or coming back to it.

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre.

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action maintain contact with the native and advise him by means of rifle butts and napalm not to budge. It is obvious here that the agents of government speak the language of pure force

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light in a way that makes me wish that forced conversion didn't work so extraordinarily well.

Colonialism is the mother of terrorism.

I do not fear the sun darkening my skin. I fear colonialism damaging my self-worth with bleach.